Even though she continued to speak ¹  to Joseph day after day, he did not respond ²  to her invitation to have sex with her. ³ 

“Indeed, the Lord will call you back like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, ¹  like a young wife when she has been rejected,” says your God.

By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of ¹  the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.

Then Absalom sent a message to Joab asking him to send him to the king, but Joab was not willing to come to him. So he sent a second message to him, but he still was not willing to come.

Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations ¹  and the countries around her. ²  Indeed, they ³  have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.

But he refused to listen to her. ¹  He overpowered her and humiliated her by raping her. ² 

I ¹  have refused ²  to touch such things; ³  they are like loathsome food to me. ⁴ 

If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, ¹  or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

So these three men refused to answer ²  Job further, because he was righteous in his ³  own eyes.

When I refused to confess my sin, ¹  my whole body wasted away, ²  while I groaned in pain all day long.

Yet they challenged and defied ¹  the sovereign God, ²  and did not obey ³  his commands. ⁴ 

You turn back ¹  his sword from the adversary, ²  and have not sustained him in battle. ³ 

Our ¹  ancestors ²  were unwilling to obey ³  him, but pushed him aside ⁴  and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,

But the Jews who refused to believe ¹  stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds ²  against the brothers.

But the Lord your God refused to listen to Balaam and changed ¹  the curse to a blessing, for the Lord your God loves ²  you.

The elders of his house stood over him and tried to lift him from the ground, but he was unwilling, and refused to eat food with them.

You also have done all these things, says the Lord, and I have spoken to you over and over again. ¹  But you have not listened! You have refused to respond when I called you to repent! ² 

They have turned away from me instead of turning to me. ¹  I tried over and over again ²  to instruct them, but they did not listen and respond to correction. ³ 

The Lord who rules over all ¹  says, “The people of Israel are oppressed. So too are the people of Judah. ²  All those who took them captive are holding them prisoners. They refuse to set them free.

But when ¹  some were stubborn ²  and refused to believe, reviling ³  the Way ⁴  before the congregation, he left ⁵  them and took the disciples with him, ⁶  addressing ⁷  them every day ⁸  in the lecture hall ⁹  of Tyrannus.